interview with Front Office Sports<\/a>, Okmin revealed that, despite being offered a contract renewal to continue working on NFL sidelines for Fox, she\u2019s opting to call it quits on television. Instead, Okmin will focus on her company, GALvanize, which helps mentor young women entering careers in sports. The veteran sideline reporter will continue to cover the NFL postseason and Super Bowl for Westwood One on the radio.<\/p>\n\u201cThey sent me the contract. I printed it out. I sat there. It was just my voice saying, \u2018It\u2019s time, this is it,’\u201d Okmin told FOS. Last season, Okmin was paired with play-by-play voice Kevin Kugler and analyst Daryl \u201cMoose\u201d Johnston. It\u2019s unclear who Fox will tap to replace her this season.<\/p>\n
With over two decades of experience as an NFL sideline reporter, it is believed that Okmin is the third-longest-tenured sideline reporter in the NFL, behind her Fox colleague Pam Oliver and Michele Tafoya, who departed NBC in 2022.<\/p>\n
Okmin told FOS that she won\u2019t miss the criticism that comes with being a woman working in a high-profile NFL television gig.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, it\u2019s a tough job having to justify your job for 20 years,\u201d she said. \u201cHaving to fight for your job and having to justify it. It feels like there\u2019s a bit of dog years with that job. There\u2019s a wonderfulness that comes with it. But also a lot of other shit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Along with covering the NFL for Fox, Okmin contributed to the network\u2019s digital coverage of the 2012 and 2014 Olympic Games. Before joining Fox, she worked at TNT Sports, CNN, and SportsChannel in Chicago during Michael Jordan\u2019s Bulls teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 23 years as an NFL sideline reporter for Fox Sports, Laura Okmin is leaving the network. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,32827,6,16026,32828],"class_list":{"0":"post-140914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-laura-okmin","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-nfl-on-fox","12":"tag-sideline-reporters"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114707155066041779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}